Fucks left to give.

Basically, how many spoons someone has left, or how much bad and/or taxing stuff they’re capable of bearing today.

This would serve two purposes. One. It’d allow me to communicate more carefully or gently with those who require it, two, it’d give me real time feedback on shit I might’ve doing that’s causing a disproportionate amount of harm to someone else.

Ex: I can be in a wonderful mood and capable of taking all kinds of bad news, but asking me to go out of my way to do an act of service for someone else as a show of affection while I’m in the middle of some self-care after I’ve spent all day working in a service industry will tank my remaining fucks immediately. I’m absolutely certain that others around me have similar reactions to things that I do, and if I could see what they were, I could stop doing them inadvertently.

The vast majority of computer users with those kinds of issues are

1. probably using windows home
2. On a big box store computer with a platter drive
3. an i3 cpu
4. and 8gb of ram

windows 10 couldn’t reliably run it’s own bundled software (Mail), by itself, with nothing else open, without that one app going “not responding” every few minutes on a computer with those specs.

Last time i checked, Walmart, best buy, costco, etc were still selling those specs with win11 which is notably bulkier and slower than 10, especially without an ssd, so things have only gotten worse for the average non-power-user.

That’s a perfectly servicible spec for basic operations on a mint install, you could probably even watch netflix or youtube on it with linux, but i wouldn’t want to run windows newer than xp on it.

Really funny to actively hate FOSS on ideological grounds because you just love corporations and markets so much.

Yeah, especially when there are so many legitimate ideological grounds you could use to hate on FOSS, like: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116851056980506739

Are you familiar with ultrasonic cross-device tracking?

It’s an actual technology that’s in use in some places we know of and likely a lot more that we don’t, because who in marketing/advertising WOULDN’T leverage that power if it was an easily accomplished thing?

I wonder who made the list of “don’t touch these repos, they’re propping up our proprietary software sans attribution” for the LLM injectabots to avoid.

I realize that the end game here is SUPPOSED to be “erode all trust in free software” but the ineptitude of those profiting off of proprietary software is such that they WILL fuck this up in such a way that it hurts themselves too, it’s just a matter of when.

It’s from the “Scandinavia and the World” comic, drawn and written by Humon, a Danish artist.

https://satwcomic.com/

Amazing comic, I’ve been following it for years. The creator is responsible for some other high quality work, too.

How do the pin outs on the USB line up?

When doing this the old fashioned way, you wire the transmit pins on the RJ-45 to 110v AC HOT and the receive pins to common.

(That’s an etherkiller, don’t make that, it will fry any networking hardware you connect it to)

Interestingly, that was the episode that made me stop watching.

I suspect I just don’t normally like watching shows about miserable people making other miserable people even more miserable, which made the fact that I really enjoyed Boardwalk Empire a surprise.

Guess there must be some other element to it.

Misleading headline.

Should be: copilot adds functionality to open links inside of it’s own sandboxed copy of the browser.

Copilot sucks, fuck AI and the hellscape it’s creating on our planet, but, dear news media: please use accurate headlines.

Weirdly, every Gen X, wannabe “operator”, tacticool, Gadsden flag, black rifle coffee, stolen valor asshole I know LOVES that drum solo.

This pic actually made me wonder if that was somehow universal among them and not just limited to the few dozen in my sample size.

Or maybe it’s just a good enough drum solo that nearly every white dude in the desertstorm1 age group likes it.

PIN is the best way to go there. It only works on that one machine, although you can technically set the same PIN again on another computer.

I believe the typical intent is as follows:

1. It is now possible to brute force things that were previously considered “complex” passwords in a semi-reasonable amount of time.
2. This necessitates longer and more complex passwords
3. People can’t remember those so they have a tendency to write them down or do other relatively insecure things with them.
4. Forgotten passwords can generate a lot of helpdesk calls and are also an attack vector
5. If we insist on really complex passwords that are too long to reasonably brute force with current technology, we need a way for users to log in that’s not going to make 3 and 4 a major issue.
6. If the simpler PIN method is locked to a per machine basis, it matters a lot less if the PIN is compromised because you also need physical access to the computer or the PIN is useless.

This should, in theory, allow workplaces to set requirements for really complex passwords that only need to be reset once a year or so, without breaking helpdesk, inconveniencing users, or leaving gaping security holes.

Whether or not that all happens depends on the workplace, but that’s the general thought process in most of the places I’ve worked where a modicum of sense prevails

Suspect?

I’m curious as to whether the use of that word was purposely deliberate or not.

I’m also curious as to how closely you’ve been following the subject and from where.

For reference, he’s been confirmed by multiple presumably trustworthy sources who, until reading the unredacted files, had no overtly stated agenda on the subject, to be in them VERY frequently.

The adamance with which these people have mentioned the frequency of his appearance in the files makes me suspect he’s in there on an order of magnitude more than anyone other than Epstein himself.

Yeah, my first thought was “harblz”.

TREK: Total Interface

It’s Total Launcher with an LCARS theme.

I’ve been using it for 4 or 5 years now across two different phones.

I absolutely despise the entire smartphone menu paradigm so this is as close as I can get to departing from it and sticking with something static that doesn’t move about or spontaneously change behaviors every third update.

That’s a static menu system sorted, now if I could just get my pixel 8 pro to stick to 30 minutes screen timeout after I set it once, that’d be great. It flips back to 30 seconds nearly every time I put it down and sometimes while I’m holding it.

Why isn’t there a developer option for “never let the phone change settings on its own”?

good policy gets you voted out of office, and makes everyone hate you. You don’t get rich from pursuing a broad-based policy that improves the lives of your constituents. a lot of people i met… were smart and open about this. there was no reason to be a ‘good’ politician because nobody pays you for it, and the voters tend to vote you out for it.

I feel like this effect could be ameliorated by restricting political advertising to direct, verified facts only.

That wouldn‘t be very democratic now, would it?

I TOLD you, we’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune! We take it in turns, to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decisions OF that officer must be ratified at a special biweekly meeting, by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, or by a TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY in the case of more immediate…

What’s next, Apple creating budget systems?

According to our IT department at work, a Mac is now on-par for price in the Q1 2026 numbers we have for our region with the Lenovos we have been getting and cheaper than comparable (hardware spec enterprise type) HP models, so kinda, yeah.

Currently it sounds like any member of our workforce that wants a Mac can get one now, where previously it was deemed cost-prohibitive and required an exception and approval.

Who knows if that will hold, though, those numbers might be based on Apple’s existing stock of RAM and subject to change when they need to re-up.

I’m curious. Economically speaking, what would happen if Nvidia pulled a “Steam” and had a “February sale” where some models of video card were discounted enough to lead to a massive spike in sales numbers? A big enough discount to generate a greater total net return on sales for the quarter despite the fact that they were sold at a lower profit margin per individual sale? Assuming limitations like “you must create an account with a residential shipping address that can receive no more than x cards at the discounted price per street address” or some such to limit scalping, would simply showing increased profits do them any good?

Or is the problem due to a lack of product quantity?

If nobody can afford anything with more than 8 gigs of ram for their office workers, they’ll all just pay for more AI tokens because otherwise the 900ms keystroke latency in MS Word would make it impossible to work, right?

I would be shocked if that wasn’t on some AI company’s brainstorm board as a positive side effect (for them) of all of this.

These features are unwanted by many, keep increasing, and the methods used to turn each individual piece off keep changing, growing, and moving, and that’s JUST on the user level.

It’s at least an order of magnitude worse to have to pull the unwanted stuff back out if you’re forking Firefox.

Mozilla could make this straightforward and easy.

They are specifically NOT doing that ON PURPOSE.

Why do you suppose that is?